This is a guide to finding bilateral and multilateral agreements when you do not have a citation. It was created by Trinie Thai-Parker and is updated by Terri Saint-Amour.
This indexes Senate Executive Reports and Treaty Documents from 1970 onwards. See CIS microfiche for reprints of draft treaties being considered by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Look in index under name of treaty or appropriate subject. Abstracts may be browsed under “Foreign Relations Committee, Senate-Prints S38". See also CIS Senate Executive Documents and Reports.
For the status of treaties at the Senate, please see: http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/d_three_sections_with_teasers/treaties.htm
This is a two-volume loose-leaf set issued for each Congressional session that provides information on the status of treaties (1937-present) being considered for ratification by the Senate. Look in the Senate volume under the tab “Treaties”.
Arranged by State Department number, this print source includes the full-text of U.S. treaties and executive agreements, which have been ratified. Indexes by country and topic are located at the end of each volume.
Contains chronological, subject and country indexes to treaties in force. Cross-references are given for related and amending treaties.
Treaties too recent to have a TIAS number are listed with a KAV number and the full-text can be retrieved using the Hein's U.S. Treaties microfiche set listed above.
Online access restricted to the Harvard University community. This resource provides online, full-text access to several important treaty series, including official U.S. treaty publications; unofficial treaty publications; treaty guides and indexes; and various treaty collections, books and texts. Includes over 18,000 treaties from 1776-present.
Use the U.S. Treaty Meta-Data Search page to find a treaty by clicking on “search” in the upper left-hand side of the screen.
* For microfiche version: Law School Mic JX235.9 .H45 (Drawer 315-316). Include subject index to microfiche set of current unreleased international agreements and treaties.
The HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library provides online, full-text access to several important treaty series, including official U.S. treaty publications; unofficial treaty publications; treaty guides and indexes; and various treaty collections, books and texts. Each treaty page is represented in both high quality image and OCR text formats. As a cost saving measure, HeinOnline does not review the OCR scanned text for errors.
Published bimonthly, this publication includes the full text of many important draft treaties. Each issue is indexed. The November issue contains the annual index. Online access restricted to the Harvard University community. Cumulative Indexes have been published for 1962-1969, 1970-1979 and 1980-1989.
Used to verify the existence of a treaty, this annual publication indexes all bilateral and multilateral treaties still in force for the United States as of January 1 of that year. Arranged by country and subject and provides, when available, UST and TIAS citations. Tends to run approximately one year behind schedule and is updated online by Treaty Actions - available online.
It is also available online at http://www.state.gov/s/l/treaty. This source tends to run approximately one year behind schedule and is updated online by Treaty Actions: http://www.state.gov/s/l/treaty/treatyactions/index.ht, but even this service is not always up-to-date.
The Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs serves as the principal U.S. government repository for U.S. treaties and other international agreements.
It is also responsible for publishing Treaties in Force (TIF), which details the over 10,000 U.S. treaties and international agreements in force as of January 1 of each year, and is charged with publication of treaties and international agreements in the Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS).
Includes full-text PDFs of Treaties and Other International Acts Series (TIAS) from 1996-2001 and various international agreements reported to Congress from 1982-2009.
This series includes multilateral treaties, arranged in chronological order in volumes 1-4, and bilateral treaties, in order by country in volumes 5-12. Volume 13 is the index.
This Harvard catalog was established in 1947 and published in 1965. It combines author, title, and subject files into a single alphabetical order, and contains some 360,000 entries, including a large section devoted entirely to treaties.
In addition, certain treaties are classified under various headings, including alliances, capitulations, commercial treaties, concordats, favored nation clause and international obligations.
This is a microfiche collection of treaty documents and reports from 1817-1969. There is a two-volume index for accessing the relevant microfiche numbers: Lamont Reference KF40 .C55x 1987
Treaties are published in their original language with either a French or English translation. The accompanying index guide, which is both chronological and by party name, is located at Law School Reference JX236.5 .I52x 1979.
Online access restricted to the Harvard University community. Coverage: 1776-present This resource provides online, full-text access to several important treaty series, including official U.S. treaty publications; unofficial treaty publications; treaty guides and indexes; and various treaty collections, books and texts. Includes over 18,000 treaties from 1776-present.
Use the U.S. Treaty Meta-Data Search page to find a treaty by clicking on “search” in the upper left-hand side of the screen.
* Microfiche available at Law School Mic JX235.9 .H45 (Drawer 315-316). Include subject index to microfiche set of current unreleased international agreements and treaties.
The HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library provides online, full-text access to several important treaty series, including official U.S. treaty publications; unofficial treaty publications; treaty guides and indexes; and various treaty collections, books and texts. Each treaty page is represented in both high quality image and OCR text formats. As a cost saving measure, HeinOnline does not review the OCR scanned text for errors.
Published bimonthly, this publication includes the full text of many important draft treaties. Each issue is indexed. The November issue contains the annual index. Cumulative indexes have been published for 1962-1969, 1970-1979 and 1980-1989.
Law School Reference JX236 1931a Also available online from LLMC and HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library via HOLLIS Covers agreements from 1776-1863.
This database provides information on the status of over 500 major multilateral instruments deposited with the Secretary-General of the United Nations.
Treaties are listed by broad subject areas. Information is provided on signatures, accessions, notifications, reservations, and declarations. Includes full-texts of declarations and reservations.
This publication provides the date of conclusion, location, entry into force, duration, reservations, language of authentic texts, depository responsibility, eligibility of parties, list of parties, territorial scope, amendments, signatories and notes. It provides more parallel citations than the other indexes. There is a keyword and subject index. Unfortunately the annual cumulative supplement, although arranged chronologically, is not indexed and the most recent version is quite out of date (up to January 1, 1994).
No longer updated.